Now, The Youngest Member Of Lalu Yadav's Family In Parliament. He Is 2 Months Old

New Delhi: Parliament's upper house had a brand new entrant today - one who is likely to become a regular. Or so his mother says.

Misa Bharati's 2-month-old son was an instant hit, reducing her party colleagues to gurgles and baby talk.  

Ms Bharati said she has to bring the baby with her to Parliament regularly for the winter session, which started today.

"How else will I feed him?" the doctor-turned-politician said. Then she joked, "I think I will be one of the first beneficiaries of the new maternity bill!"

The boy, Ms Bharati said, is yet to be named. "We can't agree on a name," she said.

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Ms Bharati's own name was not that much of a hurdle for her parents - former Bihar Chief Ministers Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi.  Misa is the acronym for the draconian Maintenance of Internal security Act, under which Mr Yadav was in jail during her birth.

Ms Bharati and her husband Shailesh Kumar already have two girls.

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Ms Bharati, 40, became a Rajya Sabha member after she lost the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Patliputra. She was reportedly picked by Lalu Yadav over his wife Rabri Devi for the role. The party has two lawmakers in Rajya Sabha.

Lalu Prasad's two sons, Tej Pratap and Tejaswi Yadav, are ministers of Bihar.